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    Giove in Argo (Jupiter in Argos, HWV A14) is an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel. It is one of Handel's three pasticcio works made up of music and...
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    George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (/ˈhændəl/ HAN-dəl; baptised Georg Fried[e]rich Händel, German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈhɛndl̩] ; 23 February 1685 –...
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    Collected editions of Handel's works include the Händel-Gesellschaft (HG) and the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (HHA), but the more recent Händel-Werke-Verzeichnis...
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    the Deutsche Händel-Gesellschaft with the aim of publishing authentic editions of all Handel's works. At the same time, performances in Britain and the...
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  • George Frideric Handel's operas comprise 42 musical dramas that were written between 1705 and 1741 in various genres. Though his large scale English language...
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    published as three suites, composed by George Frideric Handel. It premiered on 17 July 1717, in response to King George I's request for a concert on the...
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  • work was completed in April 1707 while Handel was living in Italy. It is Handel's earliest surviving autograph. The work was written in the baroque style...
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  • The Handel Festival (in German: Händel-Festspiele) in Halle an der Saale, Saxony-Anhalt, is an international music festival concentrating on the music...
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    Lascia ch'io pianga (category Arias by George Frideric Handel)
    hidden hand will come when your heart doesn't expect it. Handel's 1739 pasticcio Giove in Argo also has a "Lascia la spina" aria, but a shorter one, less...
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  • Ombra mai fu (redirect from Largo (Handel))
    known as "Largo from Xerxes" or "Handel's Largo", is the opening aria from the opera Serse (1738) by George Frideric Handel. "Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra...
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  • does not include the full scores of Handel's works (for the full scores, see Händel-Gesellschaft and Hallische Händel-Ausgabe). The HWV thematic catalogue...
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    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54, is a biblical oratorio by the composer George Frideric Handel. Most scholars believe the libretto was prepared by Charles Jennens...
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    late G. F. Handel, 1760 One may say that Händel, in particular, is not easily surpassed by anyone in organ playing, unless it be by Bach in Leipzig. J...
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    (Handel) at Curlie Georg Friedrich Händel / Messiah (1742) / A Sacred Oratorio / Words by Charles Jennens opera.stanford.edu George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)...
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    Messiah Part I (redirect from Pifa (Handel))
    Messiah Messiah (Handel) at Curlie Messiah (Handel): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project Georg Friedrich Händel / Messiah (1742) /...
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  • court in Saxony. Her Dresden debut was as Iside in her husband's Giove in Argo on 25 October 1717. Two years later, on 3 September 1719, she sang in the...
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    Acis and Galatea (HWV 49) is a musical work by George Frideric Handel with an English text by John Gay. The work has been variously described as a serenata...
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    an oratorio", in three parts by George Frideric Handel. Based on an existing opera libretto by William Congreve, the work is an opera in all but name but...
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  • The Keyboard suite in D minor (HWV 437) was composed by George Frideric Handel, for solo keyboard (harpsichord), between 1703 and 1706. It is also referred...
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    Henceforth, with the exception of Giove in Argo (1739), Imeneo (1740) and Deidamia (1741), he abandoned Italian opera in favour of the English oratorio,...
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  • Pasticcio (section In opera)
    frequently made by composers such as Handel, for example Oreste (1734), Alessandro Severo (1738) and Giove in Argo (1739), as well as Gluck, and Johann...
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    Solomon, HWV 67, is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel. The anonymous libretto – currently thought to have been penned by the English Jewish poet/playwright...
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    naturalising German-born composer George Frideric Handel and other foreigners as British subjects. In 1723, Handel had been appointed as Composer of Music for...
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    Handel Hendrix House (previously Handel & Hendrix in London) is a museum in Mayfair, London, dedicated to the lives and works of the German-born British...
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    Orlando (HWV 31) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel written for the King's Theatre in London in 1733. The Italian libretto was adapted...
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    "Handel in Hamburg". Muziekweb. 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023. Arnold Jacobshagen (ed.), Panja Mücke: Das Händel-Handbuch in 6 Bänden. Händels Opern...
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    2023. Editionsleitung der Hallischen Händel-Ausgabe: "Dokumente zu Leben und Schaffen", in: Walter Eisen (ed.): Händel-Handbuch: Band 4, Deutscher Verlag...
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    ISBN 3-525-27815-2. (in German) Albert Scheibler, Julia Evdokimova: Georg Friedrich Händel. Oratorien-Führer. Edition Köln, Lohmar 1993, ISBN 3-928010-04-2. Kemp,...
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    complete works of Handel for the Händel-Gesellschaft with Friedrich Chrysander as editor. He produced a comprehensive full score in 1875, using all the...
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    50) is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel. It is generally acknowledged to be the first English oratorio. Handel set a libretto after the Old Testament...
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